David Finkle

February 20, 2018 8:00 pm

Kings: Checking Out D.C. Lobbyists, with Checkered Results

★★★ Some of Sara Burgess play is fun, but sometimes it feels disappointingly incomplete—in its writing and acting and even Thomas Kail’s direction.

Show/Boat: A River: The Seminal, Historical Classic Severely Landlocked

By David Finkle

★☆☆☆☆ Director/adaptor David Herskovits misses the mark with Kern/Hammerstein/Ferber classic

Old Cock: Fowl Doings all the Way from Portugal

By Michael Sommers

★★★☆☆ Robert Schenkkan’s semi-satirical historical study appears Under the Radar

Blind Runner: Race for Your Life

By Melissa Rose Bernardo

★★★★☆ Iranian playwright Amir Reza Koohestani goes behind prison walls with his evocative two-hander

All In: Comedy About Love by Simon Rich — Story Hour with Broadway Prices

By Frank Scheck

★★★☆☆ A changing quartet of notable performers including John Mulaney and Lin-Manuel Miranda read comic pieces by humorist Simon Rich in this Broadway show staged by Alex Timbers.

CRITICS' PICKS

Gypsy: Everything’s Coming Up Audra

★★★★☆ New production of fabled masterwork lights the lights and hits the heights

Eureka Day: Woke’s the Word in Jonathan Spector’s Timely Comedy

★★★★★ Bill Irwin, Jessica Hecht and company bring great distinction to the Broadway season

Cult of Love: Leslye Headland Takes On, and Takes Down, Family and Religion

★★★★☆ Nothing says Christmas like squabbling siblings, screaming matches, and folk songs with four-part harmonies.

Helen J Shen and Darren Criss in Maybe Happy Ending

Maybe Happy Ending: A Futuristic Love Story With Old-Fashioned Heart

★★★★☆ This sweet but never saccharine robot romcom is the musical boost we all need

Oh, Mary!: Lincoln, Drinkin’ and Todd

★★★★☆ Cole Escola writes and stars in a Bizarro World version of Honest Abe's spouse as cabaret diva

Six: Long Live the Queens

★★★★★ Henry VIII’s wives get the royal treatment in this 80-minute musical celebration of girl power